Barack Obama is preparing to deliver a major address Tuesday on race, politics and unifying the country after being hounded by questions about his relationship to a pastor whose sermons have been laced with anti-American invective.

In a speech whose religious significance could compare to one given in December by former GOP presidential hopeful and Mormon Mitt Romney, Obama may be forced to explain the philosophy of the 8,000-strong Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where the Democratic presidential candidate has been a congregant for 20 years.

In announcing the morning address, to be delivered in Philadelphia, Obama would not say specifically what he will discuss, but suggested he wants to cool down the atmosphere after incendiary remarks by his pastor, retired Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., blanketed the airwaves over the past week.

"We can tackle race only as spectacle  as we did in the OJ trial  or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wrights sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary supporter as evidence that shes playing the race card, or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock to John McCain in the general election regardless of his policies." He is unbelievable. He accuses whitey of doing what he and Wright do. What a vile hater this pig is.

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posted on 03/18/2008 8:12:19 AM PDT
by PghBaldy
(Obama disses his white grandma to lift up Wright. He is a pig.)

What a fake this man is! He cites the beginning of our country, does not say the word “America” that I have heard yet...............only United States, and then continues to degrade original founders because they continued slavery.

This whole speechathon of Obama’s, trying mightily to stop the downturn of his campaign, makes me so cynical, even more than I was before this all started. What a mess. Obama is a phony. Simple as that.

btw I'm sick of people using racial slurs against me I am a white native american Just plain native american (because I was born here) would also be fine but some folk have to define me by the color of my skin...

Black politicians have been running the South Side of Chicago since before Prohibition and they drive the finest cars, play with the finest black and white women and amass a fortune, and still, their neighborhoods go to the dogs.

I am tired of hearing about whites screwing over blacks. It’s always been equal opportunity in Chicago.

This is the sort of thing I think of when I listen to Obama - or ANY other ‘RAT - give a speech from their “hearts”:

“...a prince should always seem to be religious.” ~ Machiavelli

“Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes, not divine, but demonic.” —Pope Benedict XVI

“What we hear from Obama is the eternal mantra of the socialists; America is broken, millions have no health care, families cannot afford necessities, the rich are evil, we are selfish, we are unhappy, unfulfilled, without hope, desperate, poverty stricken, morally desolate, corrupt and racist. This nihilism is the lifeblood of all the democrat candidates, even ‘hope you can believe in’ performers like Obama. When Michelle Obama claims she is only newly proud of her country, she does not exaggerate. In her world as in Obama’s, they believe we are a mess, a land filled with the ignorant and unenlightened, filled with despair” (Fairchok).

Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely  just as Im sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.

Am I the only one here who has never heard commentary like Reverend Wrights in Church or Synagogue? Much less profanity and hate America political rhetoric. And Ive got more years in than Obama. Might just be me, but if not I wonder what congregations he visits when traveling.

Nitpicking, but David and Goliath, Moses and Pharaoh, the Christians in the lions den, Ezekiels field of dry bones, is he talking about Daniel? If so, they need to work on Bible Study more and politics less.

All in all, an OK speech, it will keep supporters on board. And clearly the major issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign is race and racial injustice, perhaps morphed into economic injustice, at least from the Democrat perspective.

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